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usía , its-usha, my friend, alter ego. 2 . Distance, awayfrom, other 
side, etc. ; awetsehe, other side ; yó-tsahe-i, reach other side. 
Tse, tsi, plural to verbs and adjectives : wehe, pl. waiyi-tsehe, sit down ; 
lemi, pl. lemi-tsi, whito ; with adjectives it gives a degreo of coin- 
parison ; moka, yellow ; maha-tse, yellowish, very yellow. Che 
is superlative in Mojo, comparative in Vejoz. Tse, che, she are 
all used in Choroti and Suhin. As a plural it is used with some 
nouns, and sometimes with the verbal idea underlying it : Soma 
Yofuaha Use, we are Chorotis. 
It is also used as causative ; sewo, tired ; sewo-tsiho, to tire ; 
he-iou, not big, small ; hea-iou-tsehe, to make small. 
It has a similar but somewhat redundant use in the phrase : 
taha-ts-anat-e, to be on foot (taha, to be ; anal, earth ; ts-e, is). 
Che is causative, comparative, plural (and chi interrogative) in 
Vejoz. The softer sh has the same uses in Suhin ; an-shane, put 
down, below. under ; yuk-shi, reddish ; akloj wef shine, many are 
dead ; shi naitich ? wliat art thou doing ? 
XVIII. The Consonant W or F 
IF-it. The consonants w and / bclong tothe vowel u. In Choroti the 
/ is usually connected with the vowel and forms the compound 
fu or fw, but frequcntly the aspirated / is absent or at any rato 
interchangeable with the simple u or w, e.g. fuopo, fwopo, uopo, 
or wopo, upper arm. In Vejoz the / is likewise combined with 10, 
fwuj, finger ; fuen, splinter. In Suhin the / often stands by itself 
as in/o, foot ; wef, dead ; and is frequently found in conjunction 
with y, e.g. fyuj, finger ; chákfyu, a lióle. It is also interchange- 
able with the aspirated hy vel sh, e.g. fyu-wekla ; hyu-wekla ; 
shu-wekla, the moon. In Toba and Lengua-Mascoy the / is not 
used, but as in many tribes the p or ph takes its place. The ph 
is, of course, sepárate sounds as in L.-M. Ep-he-hik, finger ; not 
the / sound we give to the English word “ physic.” The above 
word is the tribal equivalen! of fwuj (Vejoz) ; fyuj (Suhin) ; 
hyuki (Choroti). Tho Toba usos pía (foot) for the Suhin fo ; 
Vejoz pa-cho (solo of foot). Another form the / takes is the w, 
e.g. Ch. a-fui-iya, to fiy ; V. fui-ya ; T. wai-yo ; S. fai-ya ; 
L.-M. kyim-pai-ya ; Q. pa-wa (pahua) from feather or wing : 
root = f, p, w; Q. pulpa, puhura, palpa; Aymara, puyu ; M. 
po-ivo (pobo); Ch. fues, wole ; V. thle-f ; S. thle-f ; T. la-ioa; 
L.-M. thlim-pin (or ihlim-pinik, pl. thlám-pánkuk, the partióle 
